WEST HURLEY, N.Y. — Two former West Hurley Fire Department officials pleaded guilty to reduced charges and were ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution apiece for abusing their authority and costing the fire district thousands of dollars since 2012, Ulster County's chief assistant district attorney said Tuesday.

David Gutierrez, of West Hurley, a former fire chief, was captain of the department when he was charged Feb. 8 with the felony of corrupting the government and the misdemeanor of official misconduct. He pleaded guilty in March in Hurley Town Court to one misdemeanor count of official misconduct and one misdemeanor count of petit larceny, according to prosecutor Michael Kavanagh.

Michael “Bucky” VanValkenburgh, also of West Hurley, a former member of the fire department’s Board of Commissioners, also initially was charged with corrupting the government and official misconduct. He pleaded guilty in March, also in Hurley, to one misdemeanor count of official misconduct, Kavanagh said.

Both men agreed “not to participate” in the West Hurley Fire Department for at least five years, Kavanagh said.

Gutierrez and VanValkenburgh were accused of abusing their authority and costing the district more than $30,000 since 2012.

In February, Ulster County District Attorney Holley Carnright said his office worked on the case with state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

“Mr. Gutierrez and Mr. VanValkenburgh allegedly violated their duty and used resources meant to protect their community to fund their personal business and lifestyle,” DiNapoli said in a prepared statement at the time.

Constituents in the fire district brought the matter to the attention of town Hurley Supervisor John Perry, a press release from Carnright's office said.

Gutierrez, with VanValkenburgh’s assistance, allegedly used the fire district water tanker for his wife’s business, Woodstock Landscaping and Excavating. He allegedly used the tanker to fill ponds, mix concrete and water plants for the business and used a fire district vehicle, gasoline and E-ZPass while traveling statewide to conduct his wife’s business.

VanValkenburgh worked for Woodstock Landscaping and Excavating.

An unrelated charge of felony assault against Gutierrez and his son David N. Guiterrez, also of West Hurley, in connection with an incident reported Jan. 17 in Woodstock is pending in Woodstock Town Court, Kavanagh said.

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Diane Pineiro-Zucker has been a reporter at the Daily Freeman since April 2013. Pineiro-Zucker worked as a reporter in the Freeman’s Rhinebeck bureau in the early 1980s, left to become executive editor at Taconic Newspapers in Dutchess County.